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right now hundreds of migrants are camped out nea the border and unable to cross into the u.s.tomstefficials arr 70 people. all of whom were trying to get into the country illegally. troops fired tear gas into the crowd of people attempting to cross the border. the president is trying to get $5illion to build a border wall between the u.s. and mexico. hehreatened a government hutdown if he doesn't get t funding. more on the story coming up on the "today" show. >> now amajor development in the robert mueller investigation. the special counsel's office now accuses the former campaign chair of lyingo federal investigators in the russia probe. that would be a breach of paul manafort's plea agreement. filing,ght in a new federal prosecutors asked the judge to sentence him on charges of financial fraud. he was convicted of 8 counts of financial fraud in august. his client believes he provided truthful information. >> developing this morning, d.c. police have their hands full investigating several violent crimes. they all happened yesterday. two people were killed. another person rema

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. >>> a stretch of roadway in the santa cruz mountains remains closed because of the nea highw. mandatory evacuations are in effect for a part of paradise park. was hurt. right now the fire is 45% contained. no word yet on what sparked it. >>> there are new closures for one of the country's largest home improvement stores. lowe's is shutting down 50 locations. it will close the store in san jose and the store on dubuque avenue. 20 underperforming stores across the country are on the chopping block as well as 31 stores in canada. they decided to close all of their orchard supply stores. >>> a new crackdown on those annoying robocalls. the action the feds just took to block spammers from your phone. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. no rain showing up on radar. i'll let you know where all of it's headed and what's coming up this week in about ten minutes. would you be willing to share a >>> what would you be willing to give up for cheaper rent? would you be willing to share a kitchen? the living room? a bathroom? a bay area company is banking on it. it's called co-living,

tonight, monica lewinski reflecting on the scandal that rocked the nation and forever changed her life neara of "me lewinski's story cast in a new light. now she's revealing the intimate details and embarrassing moments in hopes of helps others avoid a similar fate. here's my "nightline" coanchor juju chang. >> he paid a lot of attention to me. he spent time sort of standing there and held my hand longer than he should have and gave what others have described as the full bill clinton. it feels as if you're the only person standing there. >> reporter: it's the infamous start to an illicit affair. one that nearly toppled a president. >> my underwear had been showing, my thong underwear. and i thought, well, i'll up the game. >> reporter: monica lewinski speaking out about the flirtatious moments that landed her squarely at the center of a white house scandal. >> i kind of have to laugh at my younger self. but that was when my crush started. >> reporter: the unpaid intern and the commander in chief. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> reporter: now for lewinski, a new recko

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. >>> an american from hawaii spent 12 hours in shark-infested waters nea >> rescue crews finally managed to find him stranded on the hull of that boat with all of his possessions swept out to sea. here's linsey davis. >> reporter: this 29-year-old is thankful just to be alive this thanksgiving. levi verhoest spent 12 hours overnight sitting on his boat after it capsized off the coast of australia. >> i noticed the boat slowing down, and went out on deck and there was a hatch cover missing allowing water to flow in and by the time i was able to get out of the cabin and even attempt to do anything, the hull was already full of water and the boat just went -- capsized. barrn his cat that ra a minute.p ran. the sailor tried to right his boat, but couldn't. after a long, cold night in shark-infected waters verhoest activated his personal locator beacon. be drifting out there hoping for someone to sail past. >> reporter: rescuers were able to reach him by helicopter 12 minutes later. linsey davis, abc news, new york. >>> alg , e l ghin ct,om manhunt in nashville. that giant rock tossed from an

neas been. you would have known about it a long time ago if there was. the scope of the questions that the president is actually prepared to answer here?t >> we've seen today is the return of the special counsel, who has been working behind the enes for months but publicly tamped down ahead of the midtermsio these que, a series of negotiations between the white rsuse lawnd special counsel, focus on the question of collusion during the campaign. they don't want the obstruction to be part of this. these questio are focused on collusion. the president spent a few days this w ok goir the answers with his lawyers. it has been at the forefront of mind. there is concern, as you just said, other apoies haven publicly that they think indictments could be coming for them. the president has been frustrated at the criticism of his newcting attorney general, matt whitaker. and it burst into lmoht thursday ing with a rather remarkable tweet storm, h first public comments about the special counsel in a while. today, in the oval office, asked about where it stand, he su

hi fiction and nonfiction hayes been published in -- his honors include an nea fellowship, the writing award, the mitchell ton prize, two wish car prizes and inclusion in best american short stories and best american comics and wrote the audio travel, recent, the long night. his book the dark net is i a tech know -- tech know lore roar thriller. jennifer percy is a national magazine award winning journalist and a contributing writer at the "new york times" magazine. she is the author ononfiction book, demon camp, "new york times" not aable book and barnes & noble discover great new writers pick she had sift grands and honors 'ofrom the national endowment of the arts foundation, the mcdowell colony and a truman capote fellowship. her articles have been published in harpers, the anytime noon, esquire, the new republic and elsewhere. he book follows her journey to an exorcism camp in georgia as she chronicles a soldier's quest too heel from ptsd and our current visiting writer, help me welcome jennifer and benjamin percenty. [applause] >> jen will be reading first for us. >> hello. thank

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but it does not nea meet standaf credible fir fear need for propy assigned asylum seeker, president is doing the right thing. lou: no question. real issue is why paul ryan, rino, koch brothers, and business interests, chamber of commerce, business round table aligned them with radical left wingers and radical dimms insist on open borders and amnesty. we are approaching 30 million illegal immigrants this year. it is preposterous that we have to debate this issue. >> we legally and lawfully bring in over a million people each year, the democrat right now cannot point to a single bill, point us to a bill, democrats, that you support would help solve these issue. they don't have one. they are opposed to building the wall, they want to get rid of immigration custom enforcement. scarey to think what maxine waters with gal e gavel in theid want to to with chairman of the committee. lou: you brought up maxine waters. i have to share with audience, who is set to be head of financial house services committee, if they were to win the house. this alone might interest people who would have some int

congressman matt gaetz, member of house judiciary, congressman on election nea night you triedo lookt what was going on in the election office there in broward county, you were chased off by the police for crying out loud. i think we're getting some sense of maybe why they didn't want you around. >> good news is that for ron desantis and rick scott their victories are outside margin of fraud. but in florida our election system was stress tested and palm beach and broward county a failing grade, state statutes violated, constitution of florida violated, in palm beach there will not be legal compliance with reporting of ballots, i am concerned that democrats will see how they can in future steal election through lawsuits if they can't win with the voters. lou: i'm concerned that republican party will not see what they should do to make sure none of that nonsense carried out by dems occurs again. which of us is mostapproappropry concerned. >> you are right, republicans need to take seriously integrity of ballot and elec election pro, i called for rick scott to suspend brenda snipes in b

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it's an east, nea it has been certainly again. we would like rainfall to help us out. it's not going to happen, not over the next seven days. a thousand feet and above for the northeast and parts of the south bay with occasional gusts of 20 to 40 miles per hour. a lot of lower elevations will get winds tomorrow. it's just not going to be as gusty. many of us will not be getting the 40 to 50 miles per hour gusts. it's for the danger in the hills. as the dryer wind builds in, it will start us off with mostly clear skies. when the wind kicks up, could feel like the upper 30s. maybe a slight windchill, again, in the upper 30s. san francisco, fog free and 49. you'll also need the jacket here in the north bay as we'll be dropping down to 42. another surge in temperatures dryer breeze in thels to warm t. that's why we're good for 80 in morgan hl. 79 in san jose. 75 in cupertino. the east bay, head over the hills, back to inland valleys, also 82 in concord. notice the coastline, my forecast tomorrow has it going up to 70 at half-moon bay with a slight offshore breeze. it's a d

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. >> watch for authors in the nea. >> i am pleased to introduce deborah blanc to politics and prose. bluhm is the director of the night science journalism program at mit and publisher of, on dark magazine. her books include the monkey wars, ghost hunters, love at goon park and sex on the brain. in the poison squad, she tells the story of doctor harvey washington wiley, a chemistry professor from purdue and his investigation into food and drink fraud. in the late 1800s, products such as milk, meat, and can't meet and canned vegetables, not canned meat, were preserved with chemicals that were known to be toxic and often used in formulas such as embalming fluid and cleaning products. as chief chemist of the united states department of agriculture, doctor wiley and his human test subjects known as the poison squad investigated the harmful products and began campaigning for food safety and consumer protection. the spoiler alert culminated in the passage of the 1906 pure food and drug act. mary roach, author of grunts humans at war rights bluhm has cooked up a delicious brew, murder, foren

. >> woodruff: in return, amazon y expected to receive nea $2.5 billion in tax breaks and incentives as part of the two deals. a tense calm prevailed in gama today after and other palestinian militants accepted a cease-fire, broker by egypt, to end the recent wave of cross- border attacks. foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin has our report. >> schifrin: in gaza today, a palestinian boy wearing an american sweater played in t o rubbwhat used to be hamas' tv station. what used to be hamas' interior ministry is now a giant pile of debris. and a nearby high-rise is gutted, its walls and windows blown out, displacing gazans like mazen tarbaan. >> ( translated ): where we will go to? wawas displaced from in the 2014 when my house was hit. i came and bought in a safe place. now where is the safe place? >> schifrin: before today's ceasefire, israel hit 150 targets it said were connected to hamas militants. and as always, the funerals were men in hamas uniforms carried a fighter who hamas chief ismail haniyeh says was killed by israeli aggression. >> ( translated ): this is an open ba

meet nea barbara to discuss emergency alerts.hat hearing will discuss lessons learned from recent fires as well figure out ways to improve the system. >>> the camp fire in butte county is finally contained but sadly trying to account for those killed and the missing is still only getting started. as it stands, there are 85 confirmed deaths, close to 300 others still unaccounted for. from colorado, companies assisting in the grim task of identifying discovered human remains. the company uses rapid dna testing. c.o.o. jim davis says he reached out to the butte county sheriff's office, offering to help, but the job is difficult for everyone. >> for somebody to come in and give a dna sample, they're making a decision about what says his company's technology can analyze the dna samples, which can then help identify the victims. if you want to help camp fire victims, tune in tomorrow. we're hosting an all-day telethon, along with telemundo 48 and united way. we'll be answering your calls from 6:00 in the morning to 7:00 at night. the m

deveeping this morning in district, there's a shooting investigation happening nea howard university hospital. this is a picture from the scene. someone posted this to twitter. police s the shootin happened near the corner of 8th and v streets northwest. when weol talked toe a while ago, they would not release too many details. the victim is still alive. we'll update you as we learn more. >>> also new this morning, a princeorge's county police has been suspended with pay. he's accus ofexchanging money for a sex act. he was off duty but allegedly in his marked cruiser. this incident allegedly happened in the district. police are investigating the allegation. >>> developin this morning, the lawyer representing stormy daniels in her court fight with president trump is now dthling his own legal troubles. michael an michael avenatti was arrested on a felley domestic ve charge in los angeles. police say a woman with visible injuries filed a report tuesday night. no word on the rbeationship een the woman and avenatti or the alleged incident. avenatti toldeporters he's never hit aan w and is

which is the same size as manhattan in new york is home to the endangered hunter gatherer ascent to nea's tribe of which there are only one hundred fifty left to protect their way of life foreigners and indians are banned from going within five kilometers of the island contact with the outside world would put them at risk of disease the tribe was also hostile to outsiders they reportedly killed two fisherman whose boat drifted onto the island in two thousand and six and five arrows in a helicopter checking for damage after the two thousand and four tsunami last year the indian government said taking photographs or videos of the tribe would be punishable by up to three years in prison well now in india a baby has miraculously escaped death after being accidentally dropped on a railway track just moments before a train approached. seriously. now mobile phone footage shows the train rolling over the infant as her parents and other passengers looked on helplessly but thankfully she fallen flat on her back alongside the track leading the train just mr once it passed a little go scooped up the

we do not even have an assistant secretary for nea right now. is there even a decision to use the leverage? how they execute it, i think, is an open question. i am going to be a skunk at the garden party. told we force the parties end it? i think we could. that is about it. let's be very clear. that will not end the yemeni civil war. was burningivil war before the saudi's intervened. and i think jeff is right, the saudis greatly exaggerated the iranian's rep. a self fulfilling prophecy. they are there. that werewolf you going on because of its own internal dynamics, and we have seen in a number of civil wars before, and we know how they end. withdrawing external intervention sometimes is a necessary precondition, but it a never sufficient to end civil war, and often times it is actually counterproductive. oftentimes you actually need intervention to end a civil war. saudis, it willvictoria not remove the who the military houthi military threat to riyadh. they can say "well, it would not have happened if you have not intervened," that could be tr

lyndon johnson, neh, nea. you just go across the spectrum, lyndon johnson had a significant impact. probably not exceeded by fdr, but in the contemporary since 1933 it's there. and i would argue -- even ronald reagan made this point. he said i'm not against fdr, but i hate the great society. i didn't like lyndon johnson, but he accepts some elements of fdr given that he was a new dealer. but you listen to the debates today, we're still debating lyndon johnson's legacy whether we recognize head start, again, across the spectrum. and that's the point i make in the book. i talk about the pueblo. we've been dealing with the north koreans for a while, you know? we're dealing with supreme court nominations. the argument against homer thornbeforely was a lame tuck -- thornberry was a lame duck president should not be able to make that decision. so everything has a continuity there. and again, i think that's what makes it so important to understand this period, understand the johnson presidency, and i'm going to make this argument very strongly both as director, but the 1960s are going to b

we don't even have an assistant secretary of the nea right now. if there even is a decision to use a leverage, how they executed is an open question. >> i will be the skunk at the garden party. can we force the saudis to end their conventional intervention in yemen? we could. that is about it. let's be very clear. that will not end the yemen civil war. the war was burning before the saudis intervened and before the iranians intervened. the saudis greatly exaggerated the iranian threat, but has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. they are there, and that war will keep going because of its own internal dynamics. we have seen any number of civil wars before, and we know how they end. withdrawing external intervention sometimes is a necessary precondition, but it is never sufficient to end a civil war. often times, it is counterproductive. you actually need for an intervention often times to end a civil war. if we force the saudis to end or remove their conventional intervention, it will not remove the iranians from yemen or remove the military threat

one thing is to talk about the need for a new regulatory agency can thagency, the government nea new agency to deal with computers and the holistic things. the fda regulates medical devices. we need some commonality. it's like th led to the formatif government agencies this is a more disruptive technology than all of those. there's a lot of debate on how it should work. you have commonalities and differences it's still going to be the same in both instances. so, what should the manufacturer do and how does that percolate up? and of course there's a lot of problems here. when you have the government getting involved there are a lot of issues but i think we need to have this conversation and more importantly i think the government will get invoked regardless. the risks are goin were going te great and too high that when the internet startintranet starts ke there will be a call for regulation and i think that it's no longer regulation versus no regulation. regulation. smart regulation versus stupid regulation and having the discussion now when there isn't a crisis allows us to think abo

we don't have an assistant secretary for nea right now. how they actually can -- if there even is a decision to use the leverage, how they execute it is an open question. >> could we force the saudis to end their conventional military intervention in yemen? we probably could. i think bruce is right about that. that's about it. let's be very clear -- that will not end the yemeni civil war. the civil war was burning before the saudis intervened and before the iranians intervened. i think jeff is right, i've always felt this way, that the saudis greatly exaggerated the iranian threat, but it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy as he said. they are there. that war will keep going because of its own internal dynamics. we've seen any number of civil wars before and we know how they end. right. withdrawi withdrawing, external intervention is never sufficient to end a civil war. oftentimes it's counterproductive. oftentimes you need foreign intervention to end a civil war. if we force the saudis to remove or end their conventional intervention,

ra nea frederick, maryland. a few showers across parts of the i-81 corridor. easy for me to say.eady for that. temperatures oh so mild. upper 60s now. today's high temper will be in the low-to-mid 70s. the rain ends before 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. dry saturday afternoon and brig sunny for your sunday. >> thank you, chuck. >>> another local news update for you in 25 minutes. now back to "the today show." now i have a general practice, with a lot of patients who are counting on me. many of them worry about president trump taking away protections for pre-existing conditions. and women are frightened they could lose reproductive health care. it's why i'm glad i have a friend named ben. ben is a national leader who's protecting obamacare from president trump. he's my friend ben. i hope he's your friend, too. i'm ben cardin and i approved this message. saying barbara comstock'sorses je"promise has turned to dust." she's trump's "unquestioning foot soldier." jennifer wexton is the "clear and convincing" choice. "smart, serious and substantive" ... "ms. wexton would be a breath of fresh air"

the average rate on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage jumped to 4.94%, that's the highest level in nea nearlyve home buyers out of the market. existing home sales have fallen for the past six months. rates are climbing as the fed is raising borrowing costs. they don't want the economy to overheat. your mortgage may be more expensive. aldi's first ever wine advent calendar may be sold out in stores but you can still get your hands on one. it's going to frankly cost you a lot. the calendar, it's got 24 mini bottles of wine for $70. but now we're seeing it on ebay, huge markup, one sold for $300, maria. plus $50 in shipping because it's super heavy as we found out on our set as we tried to pick it up. 21 pounds. it's a wine calendar, it's got cheeses in it. they're not going to restock it. we got one on set but we can't open it because. maria: they opened the cheese. >> i didn't go for the alcohol. dagen: why can't we open it? i'm not talking about drinking it. cheryl: it's a supposedly hot property. here's how this works, there's little mini bottles. i'm going to do it. if i get in trouble, oh,