now you know. >> i'm marlie hall. >> i'm philip mena. watching "early today." >>> will you pledge, pledge that you will not shu down the mueller investigation? >> i don't pledge anything, but i will tell you, i have no intention of doing that. i think it's a very unfair investigation because there was no collusion of any kind. >> president trump speaking out on a wide ranging interview, plus he hits the campaign trail with just 22 days left before the midterm elections. >>> as tensions rise among far right and far left voters, is this just the start down the road to november 6th? >> end of an era, one of america's most cherished and longest serving retailers filing for chapter 7 bankruptcy. >>>

i'm philip mena. >> and i'm marlie hall. breaking news overnight. the united states and canada strike a deal to salvage nafta, reaching an 11th-hour agreement to reach the trade pact. canadian prime minister justin trudeau called it a great day for canada while leaving a late-night emergency cabinet meeting. officials say the two sides focused on major issues, access to canada's dairy market and a cap on car exports from canada. the u.s. had had threatened to go forward with just mexico if canada didn't come to the table, but looks like it won't come to that. officials say the new trade pact will be dubbed the u.s. nca, shorthand for the for approval >>> this morning the fbi continues its investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. president trump ordering the probe a christine blasey ford, testified before a senate committee. some democrats now expressing concern that the scope of the fbi's probe is too limited. the president pushing back, tweeting, "democrats are only thinking obstruct and delay,

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. >>> good morning, i'm philip mena. >> i'mra bracing for its first nor'easter of the season. strong winds are expected to hit. it could bring 50 to 60 mile-per-hour wind guchlts. >>> the greatest impact will be friday and saturday night. bill karins is here to let us know what we can expect. >> a big travel nightmare for airports. not too much snow. all rain from areas of iowa back down now into atlanta and charlotte. heavy rain begins to move through the mid-atlantic. storm is in two pieces. we'll see rain through the ohio north carolina coast, bring. late this evening. the mess comes up the east coast on saturday. leading edge could be a brief period much southern new england but quickly washed away as the rain moves in with warmer air. that's 8:00 a.m. on saturday. by afternoon heavier steadier rains from western new york to boston into northern new england more showery as we go throughout the evening. we are going to see winds that will gust 40 to 50 miles per hour. still leaves on the trees. in some cases leaves are at their peak. roads get slippery and minor power out o

. >> and i'm philip mena. >>> cold war-era mentions heating back up this morning. president trump is threatening to pull out of a landmark nuclear arms agreement negotiated decades ago with russia. >> now national security adviser john bolton will kick off two days of high-stakes talks in moscow this morning to try and find common ground. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington. good morning, tracie. >> reporter: hi, marlie and philip. good morning. good morning, everyone. you're right, it was more than 30 years ago that presidents reagan and gorbachev signed that inf treaty that bans missiles that could travel 3,500 miles or more. in other words, from one side of the world to the other. but now, president trump says that russia has violated that deal, so he wants to pull out, and he sent his national security adviser to moscow to send that message over the next two days. >> russia has violated the agreement. ers not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons, and we're not allowed to, so we're going to terminate the agreement. we'r