fleeing had cushions bound on their heads for protection four whole days the serious poor fourth and smothered the entire vicinity. the emperor decided that the curse of the gods was upon the city and chose not to rebuild it survivors and looters went digging for treasures left behind and then pompei passed into oblivion nowadays the ruin city attracts millions of tourists every year to see pompei is to witness the fearful might of natural forces from a safe distance but it's beyond the power of the archaeologists to preserve the ghost town the tourists on time itself are destroying with the eruptive fury of a serious left standing. a day will come when the gods will relent and bury the ill fated city a second time. such. a meaning to me as full of hope as i was headed to such a young up on one album telephone with area called nineteen a name duffy and they were playing for. now that plane should never have gone much area. i kept looking down this has gone fishing in. comics for next long d.w. . perhaps the longest art gallery in the world. sweeping subway. some one hundred stations have been

it was covert his men who drew first blood trauma smother heading in the open air in the twenty third minute i go short came it with the perfectly placed corner and miller left almost unchallenged. but in the fifty seventh minute hoffenheim came up with an answer courtesy of adam sully i hung gary and got the ball in the box faked out your own boa tang and hammered home manuel neuer with no chance. then robert leavened asking missed a penalty ten minutes from time but are you and robin fired in the rebound. but replay ruled he entered the box too soon and the kick had to be retaken this time levon drops the connecting she won for by i and in the winning minutes miller turned provider for rubbish he made a slick move to round out the three one scoreline i'm and a good start for a new coach nico veitch. ok for more let's talk to alex french from g.w. sports with me in the studio now i want to start with the big controversy of this game the foul that led to buy ins penalty the question is of course was it really a foul you know it's no question it was in. the very sorry definitely dived

it was covert his men who drew first blood to my smother heading in the open air in the twenty third minute. joshua chemist with the perfectly placed corner and miller left almost unchallenged. but in the fifty seventh minute hoffenheim came up with an answer courtesy of adam sully. the hungary and got the ball in the box faked out your own boa tang and hammered home and well no no with no chance. then robert levin doubts he missed a penalty ten minutes from time but are you and robin fired in the rebound. but replay ruled he entered the box too soon and the kick had to be retaken this time levon dusky connected to one for a bye. and in the waning minutes millar turned provider for profit made a slick move to round out the three one scoreline and a good start for a new coach me coco fudge. finally if you will into the final of playing the egg this is for you the twenty third world championships in. which. this is events fifteen finalists from six countries imitating their favorite golds in front of a crowd of thousands and in the end it was twenty three year old. from japan who was c

smothers brothers used to have science urproblem s. >> stephen: all the time. >> all the time. shoot. and they'd say, "does anybody have anything?" and alan would say, "wait a minute, rob and steve had that hollywood prepremiere thing, let's hear that." we acted it out. all the characters. big laughs, and he'd go, "i don't think so, no." next thing, a sketch drops out, "wait a minute, that hollywood premiere thing, do that." he just wanted uss to perform for them. we never got it on the show. never made a show. >> stephen: you guys had the cancellation at the last minute and mason williams had to go out there and play gigar. right, because he did classical gas. >> classical gas, he used to rehearse it in the the writers' room. and i thought gee this is astound ago. >> stephen: do you guys-- does anybody out there know classical gas? >> it's very hard to do. >> stephen: matty? >> i don't. >> stephen: i've never been more disappointed. >> yeah. that's a real tough place piece to play. >> stephen: he stopped being a comedian, right? he went on and became a pop star after that. >>

ethan mack cooled his heels while his jury tried to decide if he did or did not smother, beat, taserike a little sister to him. and then after 14 interminable hours, they trooped back into the courtroom and told the judge they could not decide whether or not ethan was guilty of murder. >> what i'm going to do is on the murder charge, i'm going to declare a mistrial on that. >> mistrial, a hung jury. >> huge letdown. >> right. >> it wasn't going to be over. it wasn't going to end. we were going to possibly have to relive that whole event again. >> as she packed up her file, solicitor scarlett wilson vowed to find justice somehow. and then quite unexpectedly, there was an intervention from a surprising source. it was ethan mack's own church-going, no-nonsense mother. she had testified during the trial for her son, of course. gave a hint then of what she was made of. >> corrine mack dean, d-e-a-n. >> ethan's sort of a mama's boy, isn't he? >> yes, he is. >> do you know anything about your son having any involvement with kate waring's murder? >> no. >> if you did, would you stand here to

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boat motors or whatever you want to magically have some motorcycles smothered in the mining equipment like us say we would take a lot of that stuff you would sell a four hundred dollar mining helmet maybe once a week the lights daily but the fact of the mining mines are shutting down makes it difficult to sell that stuff because these were so these were being sold to personal miners for their own use they're not in mining anymore course they're not buying it. like mine. where all of them are and very accounting. ever. in the states is tough today it's hard to see any traces of the turbulent past there once made harlan the tories. the county is still mostly dry and was one for years people used to make moonshine knowledge drugs are in the rice a trust painkillers prescribed by doctors to treat danger and six miners now ask a prime d'antin yes. there's a lot of these big fish region are. you are you said yes' and. you very much any of them they're making you feel better and are they going to make them feel better. we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stolen.

boat motors or whatever you want imagine we have some motorcycles smothered in the mining equipment like you say say we would take a lot of that stuff you would sell a four hundred hour mining helmet maybe once a week the lights daily but the fact of the mining of mines or shutting down makes it difficult to sell that stuff because these were species were being sold to personal miners for their own use they're not in mining anymore course they're not buying it. yeah yeah my. three year. we're. very counting. just everywhere. in the states is tough today it's hard to see any traces of the turbulent past there once made harlan notorious. the county is still mostly dry and was one for years people used to make moonshine now drugs are in the rice a trust pain killers prescribed by doctors to treat danger and six miners now ask a prime d'antin yes. there's a lot of places where there's a big fish and or a. nurse said yes and yeah pretty much anything that makes you feel better and they think it makes them feel better i mean we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stol

. >> reporter: ali, his family served upha sizzlin smokes smothered in chili over the past six decadese landmark u street location. >> it is beginning to feel lik a part of history for us. from my parents' beginning, it was humble. >> reporter: his b parents and virginia ali opened in 1958. ntring the visible rights era, ben's was an impor cornerstone and it thrived. >> amazing. >> reporter: the blair family it's dinner on this hick night. >> we're just proud that it's still here and proud tond come patronize. >>> the food is really good and i like i here. >> reporter: earlier today, a ew street sign for ben's chili bowlway was unveiled. reverend jesse jackson and hughes were also added to the restaurant's famous mural. ♪ >> reporter: 60 years and beyond. >> we don't see a end in sight. we want to keep going day to day. >> reporter: back out here on ben's chili boll way, it's so great to see all the jobs ben's has been able to create over the past 60 year all the proceeds from today are going to d.c. charity just to help them out. all the money raised on this lisk day in our nation's c

smother madelaine was a water color painter her father a successful businessman. in one nine hundred forty one while studying law in paris france was secretly took drawing and painting lessons. two years later she decided to become an artist and her family broke off all contact with her. and i've been painting since i don't know when and when men will not allow them to do the same. as an leave it was a. silly little things. young girls or something like that but in the twenty first twenty years and to me the men. taken the power to bend themselves the man would all not the same way but with their will on their own power so to speak. france was. a woman who many has always been determined to pursue her own idea of art. the next artist has also worked hard for success i'm talking about rick astley thanks to his hits like a never gonna give you up together forever the british musician rose to world fame and the eighties and became a millionaire in his early twenty's so he treated himself to a long hiatus of about twenty five years but the break is over and now he's r

bit brazen because in many ways there's an air force together with the syrian air force that has smothered. the cities to a smithereens that's produced brocades you pay to fix it you know that let's move on to these energy questions it is that the north stream to the gas pipeline that's going to supply russian gas directly to germany president trump has complained that this is one of the ways that germany is quotes totally controlled by russia does he have a point well no not at all you know the the main the main priority the main point about no three and two is not a german dependency on russian gas but the point is there really is the transit of. russian gas through ukraine and ukraine last year for instance made three billion euros from this transit of russian gas to europe and this is this is the crux of the matter and of course this is part and parcel of the destabilization attempt by putin of ukraine because he does not want ukraine to be a prosperous democratically oriented country let's finish on ukraine i don't understand why it's even on the agenda between these two leaders but p

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strong storms and torrential downpours, from virginia to massachusetts, new york city skyline smothered in dark clouds in that time-lapse video right there. abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano in central park tonight. rob, more heavy rain in areas that don't need it. >> reporter: whit, we are saturated and here in central park, already a record rain for the day. as you can see it's still raining here. we have ongoing flood warnings in areas of new jersey and pennsylvania. some of these spots -- long island, over 4 inches of rain already. flash flood watches now posted from northern virginia all the way up to southern new england. you see the heavy pulses of rain that will be moving through tonight. kind of congregating around the mid-atlantic, d.c., baltimore, gets it the heaviest. and look at monday, more heavy rain across the northeast. that coverage beginning to spread out. as you mentioned, this is over areas that don't need the the rain. more rain over the next 48 hours. whit? >> a wet weekend in the east. rob, thank you. >>> moving on to that major court victory for a terminal

on thursday police arrested him alleging he smothered and killed his 16-year-old exgirlfriend back thereanuary. >> i'm shaking as i'mthetting information as if i'm just learning she is missing. >> when she first disappeared they labeled her as a run it frustrated her family. >> don't assume the worst asst e walked away. she is just being bad. >> it's the way the legislation is written. their hands weren't locked.he settingecord straight. >> all we want at the end of the day is for the world tond unders her name is jholie. she did notun away. >> not a run away but a victim wloz alleged killer is now behind bars. news 4. >>> today washington area a lobbiestitted to making a $50,000 donationo therump inaugural committee. that money was used to buy aru ian an ukrainean. he is aused of funneling thatur money to pase the tickets. they have agreed to cooperate as part of his plea deal. >> he is asking priests in the archdiocese to forgive hisser r his errors in judgment. in husband letterim he asked to talk about the situation at mass this weekend saying please let your people know that i do re

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and we shouldn't be operating under the auspices isis has been smothered because they are proliferatingnd a good deal of that responsibility rests on turkey's shoulders. >> they helped support isis from the early stages of the war. they were more concerned about our allies, the kurds more than isis. we are the super power, not them. they need us more than we need them. kennedy: nato has become obsolete and ridiculous when you have an authoritarian regime cozying up with russia. how can we justify their staying in nato when maybe the whole thing should be disbanded. >> we want them to have secrets. we have nuclear weapons in our base. we should be pulling those out. the human rights, it's not just pastor brunson. something like 15 americans have been arrested. arrested. there is a nasa engineer. you have got 70 journalists in turkey right now rotting in jail. and i have a feeling it's not the most of pristine conditions. have you ever been in a turkish prison? it's not exactly something -- >> remember the movie "midnight express." we saw what those conditions were like. kennedy: what do

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>> i think she went to bed, and i think what he did is he got a pillow and smothered her. as he's got this pillow over her face, she struggles a little bit. and i believe that's where he got the scratches on his right triceps. >> if mr. joy hadn't done that google map search, leading you essentially to the body, would he be a free man? >> if no other evidence came up, yes. >> he'd be a person of interest in a cold case? >> correct. >> maribel ramos graduated from college posthumously. her niece gisele, who maribel had always hoped would follow in her footsteps, instead ended up walking the path meant for her aunt. >> i received her diploma. and i got to sit in her seat. and walk upstage and receive everything. >> it was so difficult so be there. it was difficult to see my daughter in such pain. walking for her aunt. >> maribel ramos, we lost this gal a couple years ago. she was an army veteran -- >> every wednesday in the city of orange, they lower the flag for the fallen who served. but maribel has a legacy, gisele, who seems well on her way to becoming the successful wom

there can't be enough government to smother business and growth here.usetts certainly doesn't want to see her continue with this path. in fact she made statements last week also beyond just her economic vision. she said that the entire criminal justice system of massachusetts is racist, around the country is racist from front to back. that has a lot of people in massachusetts very upset. david: i'm sure it did, but again the odds are in her favor for the moment. we wish you the best of luck. i have to switch to one subject because as a beer drinker this concerned me. hard to think of anything more sacred in the minds of people from massachusetts, maybe the sports teams but sam adams beer. it's a wonderful beer. i love it. i buy a case of it every time i go up there because it is a little cheaper there, but there is a mayor in massachusetts who is boycotting the beer because its founder thanked president trump for tax cuts. what will happen to that mayor? somerville mayor, joe kev curtatone i think is the name. >> he is also the same mayor declare sanctu

it was well orchestrated and very well done, and we smothered 'em and took over. [ applause ] >> i wouldnse of liberty is no vice. [ cheers and applause ] [ horn blowing ] thank you. thank you. thk you. and let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. [ chrs and applause ] >> gold: and when he said that, and people were stunned by the thing, one of the reporters turned around and said, "my gods oing to run as goldwater." >> barry goldwater got up andt tore tnvention apart again, by that line that, "extremism in the defense of berty is no vice." and i remember i was at stone harbor watching it with my father, and he wanted to see what kind of candidate gdwater was. he got up and said, and he was.hed." wa >> r. goodwin: he wato the right of where the country was. people didn't wanto hear about extremism from him, or from any presidential candidate. >> nelson rockefler, after the convention that nominated barry goldwater, got up to give a speech, and usually you expect a warm embrace of e candidate that did not prevail, and to unify going to the election. >

the man was absolutely smothered by extraneous material.e going to let ronald reagan be ronald reagan. >> the mantra let reagan be reagan was let's take advantage of what we've got. the strongest thing, our best political asset is ronald reagan being himself, communicating with the american people. when he was showing his personality, his ideas and rhetoric, he generally succeeded. >> going into tonight's debate a new nbc news poll indicates the race continues to narrow. >> i think the audience out there tonight will be looking at ronald reagan in a new way. i think in louisville the myth or the mystique of the great communicator was dented, perhaps irreparab irreparably. >> president kennedy had to go days on end with very little sleep during the cuban missile crisis. is there any doubt in your mind that you would be able to function in such circumstances? >> not at all. mr. truitt. and i want you to know that also i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexpe

. >> reporter: from san jose to san mateo, the peninsula and beyond, fires have smothered our air raising alarm bells for air quality experts. >> we're seeing smoke impacts from fires as far as british columbia and the pacific northwest as well as in the northern california region. >> reporter: purpleair.com, sensors show readings from the 70s to over 100. san jose pops said 117. downtown san francisco at 97. anything over 100 is considered unhealthy. does that make you nervous? >> sure. >> reporter: nicholas is in town from france and heard about our fires on french tv but refuses to let the smoky aftermath choke up his weekend. >> we must be careful. not during vacation. >> reporter: and definitely not during giants baseball. >> 1,000% because we're going to have the italian heritage month. we'll be able to experience our favorite team. >> reporter: and tonight is expected to bring a little bit of relief, a breath of fresh air but it's not clear if that's going to breathe any new life into the giants playoff hopes. sam brock, nbc bay area news. >> sam is right, it is clearing up out the

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great things happen, and statists always have to smother those ideas. >> yeah.think this is like a trump thing or republican or democrat think. it's just like don't do dumb stuff that's going to make it harder for millennials. they already like it easy. [laughter] kennedy: you're like the fat people on the spaceship in wall-e. just cruising around drinking dinner from a cup. >> right. and so we already want free stuff, so don't make us pay for things like, you know, take our lyfts away -- kennedy: yep. >> it's just a dumb strategy. kennedy: so, you know, it's obviously a choice between unions and technology. and, you know, the democratic old guard, they are beholden to unions. and, you know, just like there are people who say that you're not going to bring manufacturing jobs back to the midwest, you're not going to bring union jobs back to cab drivers. >> well, i mean, the unions are kind of this a tough space here. they lose out to the environmentalists with the democratic party, to the gig economy if the millennials actually care enough to start voting based o

and who are down in the dumps and been down in the dumps for a long time, they snuff out or they smotherr optimism. and i think that is really not just unfair, but i think it's dangerous. >> it's dangerous and it's damaging, and it's even the same at home. if you've got a member of the family that is just determined to get you depressed, wouldn't you maybe want to challenge them on their approach with you? and that's what this is. this nation is a community, it's a family. and you've got a part of the family that now you really kind of want to lock the door on because they want to ruin your life. at the same time, this is why two years ago gallup found in the history of their polling on this issue that american trust in media was at the lowest it was in american history. and again, they are, were angry because we know that they're important, and the role that they play when it comes to power and governance and conveying to us what's important. and we care about the future, and we care about journalists actually doing their job. it's not something we want to go away, but they clearly have

mentality that served eisenhower well, that then kennedy often tried to get away from, felt it was smothering and veered off from, but over time, i think historians have come back to say look at how well it worked in those eight years. national security council at the center of everything, the way in which paper flowed uphill and downhill, the whole process of governing was remarkably consistent. and eisenhower had a system and he stuck to it all the way along. in that regard, i think he shaped the presidency in ways that have influenced later presidents, including that of george h.w. bush. i'll just close by saying, you know, the argument of -- this kind of argument in a biography that you want people who are not necessarily scholars to read has to be embedded and sort of hidden at the same time. and that's a challenge, because scholars like to argue but people who read biography don't want to hear what you have to necessarily say. they want to hear what your subject has to say. it's a trick as to how to make an argument while also somewhat hiding it. the title of my book in a sense "the age

that's the exact kind of activity that just sort of suppresses the index level volatility and smothers limit. >> when you look at what is bringing the dow down today, it's like a hodgepodge there's no story to it, from what i can tell. you know, is there a story there? >> you can see the global ones but they're all global, pretty much. >> yeah. walmart is up. >> yeah. it's a little bit of a defensive cash to the dow now when you have walmart and the pharma stocks. >> yeah. >>> tesla is lower we talked about it, obviously. we have confirmed this tweet from david is legitimate he's not verified by twitter i want to thank elon musk for the shorts he's a man of his word they did come with -- manufacturing defects. >> look at the photos. look at your screen, if you're not looking at the screen! >> if you missed the joke, elon said he would send david a pair of short shorts after david said he would not review, i think, his tesla lease, i recall. >> yes. >> david had been short of tesla at times so it was, obviously, i'm going to cancel my lease because, you know, i'm not happy with the car.

not by the russians to spend $100,000 on facebook, but by the united states government, the irs to smotherwas huge and affected all elections since then. ashley: a lot of galling factors that the irs admits no wrongdoing, off of the settlement money 50% goes to lawyers, each individual group that were targeted gets about $17,000 each, and then we get this from the irs, well, we have made changes so political targeting can't happen again, do you buy that? >> no, i was on the commission to look at the irs back in the 90's and back then under clinton i was talking to my left-wing friends. i said, are you guys getting audited because heritage, all the conservative groups were being audited by the obama irs and none of the liberal groups were and when i asked question, oh, no, we have the wonderful system to make sure it's terribly nonpartisan, great, we would love to see, oh, no, it's secret you have to trust us. >> when everyone says that the first thing you do is not trust them. also lerner pled the fifth, called hero in the investigation from trying to stop the practice, give me a break. >>

it the party of trump, but the fact is that there are a lot of right of center voters that feel smotheredave been looking for other ways out. one example was the koch brothers, the fight with them was canary like e monomusk tweets, it's too much for them. now they've pretty much dropped out. i call them fair-weather trumpers, they like policies but they don't particularly care for the melodramas. stuart: can i extrapolate from that they are tired not just disruption that president trump brings but the demeanor, a lot of people don't like that and won't vote. >> i don't know whether it's yes, it's a substantial number. he's got 35% to have electorate that's going to stay with him no matter what, but at the margins where you win these tight elections like the ones the republicans have to win in november i think, yes, that those people who are tired of the personality run the risk that they're the ones that are going to stay home and the democrats will take back the house. stuart: okay. look, i've got to run, i have to move on because i'm flat out of time, but i do have time for something co

so it's bad news for the party and they successfully smothered it for now.tweeted this out what my son said was true. every statement he made was true. keith ellison said you know you did that to me went on to say you know this is the same tweet. my fault. i have given every opportunity to get help and heal, even now you are willing to say my son is lying and have me continue to leak more text and info so others will believe him. she was not going to come forward. then when her son was called a liar, she came forward. and now she can't believe is he taking position is he taking. here is tom perez who runs the dnc. >> we take all allegations of sexual misconduct very, very seriously. and that is something we have always done. and that is something we will continue to do. and that's why the matter is under review. brian: is that enough for you? >> no. they say it's under review. the dfl party said it was under review. two days later the party central committee endorsed keith ellison for attorney general. so, we don't know was there a review, if there's there w

there will be a faster and smother ride.kers have been doing $40 million in repairs to the twin peaks tunnel. it needed work to the walls to the drainage system, and the tracks. the tracks were actually relaced and now--replaced and now trains can move through faster. trains used to have to slow downgoing through the tunnel. now the tunnel was closed for two months and muni riders took shuttle buses to get downtown instead. >> traffic has obviously been shut down on west coral avenue, just one lane open going in the direction. but you know, really, the hardest thing i think was the noise at night with all of the big construction equipment. but that was not too bad either. we are just excited to have it open. >> i has been slower, i would say, getting around town. this kid, he loved to watch vehicles, so was a big bonus, but he loves to ride the trains, too. he is very excited now. >> reporter: this is what the area around west portal station looked like, large vehicles lined the street and parts of the avenue was closed. now