dumb andmade mistakes in the past. >> woodruff: one person in the crowd at sunday's festivities in rutland said heitkamp handled it >> couldn't be more proud of her. that took a lot of guts. woodruff: so did vanessa kummer, who met at hr family's farm near colfax. >> it probably strengthenings my ideal of what heii stands for, because whether he was guilty or not, he proved not to be judicial and very psan. >> the trucks come in down the driveway and come right here. >> woodruff: but ms. kummer has an even stronger reason to support heitkamp, her opposition to president trump's get-tough trade policy tard chinawhich china responded to by ending its purchase of u.s. soy ans, one of north dakota's main farm exports. the sult has been drastic losses for soybean farmers here. >> it's basically been shut down for us. >> woodruff: kummer is but one of tens of thousands of soyan farmers in north dakota who are feeling the effects of the tradi war witha. >> the combine will come across, and it will cut it right here. w druff: uh-huh. sara lovas and her husband oversee 8,000 acres in llsborough, ha

the place to be this sunday in southeastern north daks the annual festival in tiny rutland, celebratingts scandinavian r. toring on grass, a kids' tra race, and the highlight, a parade attcted young and old and the two can dates in one of the most competitive races for a u.s. senate seat this fall. >> you notice all the norwegian flags. this is a norwegian town. >> doodruff:ocrat heidi heitkamp, the only high-level member of her party left in a state that for years sent mostly democrats tong washin, is in the bull's-eye of a republican drive to hang on to itmajority in the u.s. senatd e. a bonus, sweep democrats out of power here. >> they couldn't keep up with where north dakota was going. senator heitkamp may be the last casualty. i don't know. >> woodruff: taking her on is republican kevin cramer, north dakota's only member of the u.s. siasti and an enthu backer of president trump. >> all i can say is, mr. president, thank you for not forgetting us. ng woodruff: he won here by a whop6-point margin two years ago. only two states in the coutry have a smaller population than north irkota.

kerry sanders, nbc news, rutland, vermont. >>> the u.s. navy celebrates a birthday today. it's come a long way since 1775. >>> take a look at this video, an unusual jail break caught on camera. two inmates at a louisville prison managed to bust out by hiding in trash bins. both were recaptured, but not before going house to house to hide with residents. three other inmates were charged with helping the two escape. >>> in southern california last night, an incredible light show. natural, the skies above los angeles were lit up by lightning as thunderstorms hit the area, dropping nearly half an inch of rain. even with the rain, the lightning managed to set ten palm trees on fire in nearby orange county. >>> the american navy celebrates a birthday today. 243 years ago, the continental congress established a navy with two ships, 80 sailors each. today there are 286 ships and submarines in service. than 328,000 active duty personn personnel, 98,000 reservists, and 270,000 civilian employees. happy birthday to all of them. and some of the army veterans on our staff point out, th

in an interview at a scandinavian festival in rutland, north dakota, heitkamp reacted angily to his assessment of women who say they've been sexually assaulted. quote, it did not make my mom less strong that she was a victim. she was strong and made us strong, and to suggest that this movement doesn't make women stronger is really unfortunate. sabrina, those are the kinds of two conversations going on right now. >> it's worth noting that heidi heitkamp's opponent, this isn't the first controversial remark he's made with respect to brett kavanaugh. he also was in headlines just a couple weeks ago for stating that even if dr. christine blasey ford's allegations were true, it should not disqualify judge kavanaugh from being confirmed to the supreme court, because ultimately the attempted rape did not go anywhere. i think that it really does reinforce, though, the dynamics that are playing out in the two parties where republicans are broadly being propelled by male voters, whereas you are also seeing that same gender gap manifest itself among democrats, where women are, according to several polls,

my name is william hutland, and i -- rutland, and i represent macy's. if the purpose of this permanent controls is to help preserve the retail flavor of union square, there is nobody that cares more about that than us. that is our livelihood. we very much want to maintain retail, and we very much want to ensure that anything we do in our buildings supports retail, but we found that it's difficult. things have changed to get retail to go all the way up to the third floor. brick and mortar is changing. i don't understand why it would be unreasonable to allow a little flexibility. it's not like you can just put anything on the third floor. going through a conditional use permit process, everybody gets to weigh in. you get to determine exactly what you're going to approve in that space under any circumstance. but what we most do not want is vacancies, and we, through experience, find that it's sometimes very difficult to put retail on that floor, but we do want people, we do want vibrancy, we do want that type of support. so we do primarily support the posi