and kill the mayor of wichita because the mayor of wichita supported a mask rule for wichita. the mayor of wichita will join us later in this hour. also joining us later in the hour are two people who can change the course of american history if they win their campaigns for the united states senate in south carolina and georgia. if the polls are correct and joe biden crushes donald trump in the election, exactly nothing on the biden legislative agenda will pass the congress and get signed into law if mitch mcconnell is still the majority leader of the united states senate. nothing. the only way to undo the legislative damage that donald trump has done is for democrats to win control of the united states senate. democratic senate candidates jaime harrison and john ossoff will join us at the end of this hour. we know how we got here, where governors, mayors are the targets of kidnap and assassination plots over this. this is worth killing people only because donald trump is president of the united states. america is the country where this is worth killing people because donald t

wichita has the greatest people in the country.e have the best police chief, we have incredible neighbors that look out for each other. when i look at what happened to governor whitmer, that seems more planned out. here it seemed like someone that's obviously on the fringe, and here in wichita, voice of common sense always drowns out the fringe voices that just are loud but not common. so overall, i think the two cases are different, and again, i live in the best community in the world, so i am never afraid to be in wichita. >> laura trump, the president's daughter-in-law, speaking on behalf of the campaign this weekend, this is what she said about the president's attacks on governor whitmer. >> he wasn't doing anything to provoke or threaten this woman at all. he was having fun at a trump rally. >> i mean, i hear folks in the president's corner downplaying some of the rhetoric. what do you think of it being characterized as having fun? what do you think about what this rhetoric is doing? do you think it is contributing to an envir

joining me now is the mayor of wichita, randen whipple. mr. mayor, welcome to "meet the press." >> it's good to be on. >> tell me about this threat, and tell me why you thought this one was so serious. >> yeah, listen, i signed up to be mayor. i usually am at the receiving end of some goofier type threats in the past where this one seemed more credible because the person wasn't just on social media i think starting a buzz. this person actually cept direct text messages to someone else, a council member who had my address asking for my address so they can carry out this crime, would-be crime. >> so this challenge that has been taking place -- i was speaking with the michigan governor on sunday, here's what governor whitmer said about both the incidents, the threats against her and against other public officials. here's what she said. >> it is wrong. it's got to end. it is dangerous not just for me and my family but for public servants everywhere who are doing their jobs and trying to protect their fellow americans. people of good will on both s

democrat brandon whipple says the suspect was apparently upset over wichita's policies aimed at stopping the spread of covid-19. the suspect was interested in kidnapping him and doing harm. the 59-year-old man in custody is charged with making a criminal threat. >>> rallies around france have honored a teacher murdered in an apparent terror attack. thousands remembered samuel paty two days after investigators say he was beheaded by an 18-year-old chechnyan refugee. police later killed the suspect. 11 people have been arrested in connection with the killing which president emmanuel macron called an islamic terrorist attack. authorities say pady faced threats since showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad in a class. >>> the possibility of human remains at the site of the titanic shipwreck is at the center of a legal dispute. a salvage company is planning to retrieve the ship's radio equipment, but the government is trying to block the expedition claiming remains could still be in the wreck. the company claims no remains have been found there in the 35 years since the site was discovered.

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fauci's comments come after a 59-year-old man has been arrested after threatening the wichita mayor. >>> the covid-19 surge continues. over 30 states are seeing large jumps in cases this as medical experts say it's not just large gatherings but small ones that are fueling the surge. here's nbc's sam brock >> reporter: frances, good morning. concerning rising trends have causes many place tsz to pull back that's not the case in south florida where bars and restaurants are opening longer this as the u.s. is bracing for a likely fall surge. >> reporter: in south florida, a clash between bringing back the party and boosting business. after a court order temporarily struck down miami-dade's curfew. >> right now we are not enforcing the curfew because of the governor's executive order we are not fining people who are not wearing masks because of the governor's order and we are not able to enforce social distancing because of the governor's order he has made it very difficult to protect people from the spread of the virus. >> some clubs showing clear signs of social distancing as the owners

minneapolis, 19 degrees cooler than usual at 37. 64 in wichita. chicago, 59 degrees. the front will surge north tomorrow, so chicago, you'll see a 15-degree, 16-degree temperature change by tomorrow with a high of 75. kansas city, you'll be up to 82. that's a 25-degree temperature change. then the front moves south, and boom, you drop again. chicago, you're down to 62 by friday. 68 in st. louis. kansas city, you're down 48 degrees. that's a 34-degree temperature change in 24 hours. we're going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. as we take a look at what's going on, our high fire danger continues for the next 45 minutes for the north bay and all those elevations above 1,000 feet. but then we'll include parts of the east bay as well as the santa cruz mountains starting tonight and that red flag warning will continue through friday. we're going to have warm temperatures but we'll transition to cooler air. as we do so we'll have gusty winds raising our wildfire risk. latest weather savannah >>> ju

expedition embarked up the red river and there was another expedition by hunter and dunbar that went up wichita therel -- . was another expedition proposed to go up the flat river, but it never happened. there were lots of designs to try to explore these major river systems. one of the reasons why the lewis and clark expedition is more famous than all of these others is because some of the others were actually turned back by the spanish. in the case of pike, he was arrested along with his men and taken under house arrest down to santa fe, and then down to chihuahua. the freeman-custis expedition was turned back by the spanish. the hunter and dunbar expedition went to the hot springs in arkansas. they had some r and r there with the minerals and returned home. the stephen long expedition won't occur until 1819, so it is down the road. are you aware that lewis and clarke -- there were seven -- excuse me -- there were four different attempts by the spanish to arrest lewis and clark. they sent out expeditions to apprehend them. and they came within a few hundred miles on two occasions , to nearly a

. >>> a men in kansas is facing charges for threatening to kidnap and kill the mayor of wichita overs. according to the mayor brandon whipple, meredith dowdy sent graphic texts to a mutual contact. and the mayor said dowdy got into requests and disturbing details what he planned to do. >> my reaction was really one of anger, to be honest, i'm not proud of that but i've got little kids, i've got a family. >> mayor whipple thanked police on twitter saying violence is never a way to settle disagreements. >>> we're seeing as we told you covid-19 cases arising this morning and i'm wondering if you're finding another round of anxiety creep in. covid has changed so much what we exact, the decisions we make, what we value. i call it reset. resetting our priorities what we realize about ourselves through this era. this week i talked to life coach martha beck. >> before the pandemic, there was a sense the way we were doing it the way it's done. when you abruptly get shocked out of the way with the way your culture is doing things. they say a man with one watch always knows what time it is. a m

all the way back to wichita, down towards oklahoma city and up towards boston. as it moves the next 4 hours at a 50 miles per hour to 60 miles per hour clip, flooding rain and wind will be an issue all the way through the mid la-atlanticd up towards boston. back at home, it's clear, calm, it couldn't be more tranquil. temperatures in the 30s and 40s in the north bay, 40s and 50s elsewhere. in emeryville, it's quiet, 51 degrees. everyone should have power back now. if you're working or learning from home, a great day, tranquil weather. if you're out swimming this afternoon, there are still some pools open doing lap swimming. that's a look at our weather. let's turn it over to frances and see what's going on with our traffic. >> hi, mike. good morning. it's looking good right now on the freeways. we're starting off with a live shot of the san mateo bridge. traffic is flowing well in both directions. looking good as you make your way out of hayward into san mateo. foster city. we'll show you a live shot in the south bay, san jose, headlights are northbound 280, tha

numerous power outages likely from oklahoma city all the way down to wichita falls.h this, dominic, the fire danger is off the charts right now in california yesterday we had 60,000 people that had to evacuate today, 33 million people under red flag warnings. another dangerous, windy day on the west coast i mean, dominic, i don't know if i had an october forecast with more going on than this one. >> i'm trying to take notes right now because of everything that you just said it's tremendous the amount of headlines happening. what exactly could be the implications of all that rain right now, just a few seconds left here for the gulf coast specifically it's still trying to recover how much of that rain damage is already going to be exacerbated by what's happening here now with zeta? >> i do not think this will be a billion dollar weather disaster like the other ones we had previously it's just not strong enough and it's small the footprint of the damage will be narrow. and i think that's going to help with this storm. but that doesn't help the people that are in that na

. >> at a kansas home depot, police responded to reports of a bomb threat at the store in wichita a customern inside the bathroom said there was a bomb in the building police were able to locate the man responsible for those comments and that man told police he warned other guests to leave the restroom because he was, quote, "fixing to blow it up," but had no intention of causing a panic. the man also told police others in the room laughed, understanding his joke, which i'm just now getting >> seth: this is the kind of story we need right now. the news is filled with stories about someone calling 911 unnecessarily to abuse their white privilege. finally a story about someone calling 911 unnecessarily because they misunderstood someone who was taking a dump. not only were the police called, because a bomb threat is a very serious matter, they had to go to home depot, conduct an investigation and interview witnesses. imagine being the police officer who had to take those statements with a straight face "uh-huh. uh-huh and did the suspect say how big a bomb he planned to drop? one eyewitness to

it's four hours drive northwest of wichita, if you are trying to find it on the map. it is as rural as rural america gets. but that's what's happening now. that's what's driving this in the country. the last time we had case numbers anywhere near this high literally most of the cases in the country at that time were from a handful of large paplation states, florida, california and texas and arizona. now it's not a handful of states. it's everywhere. and there is something else i want to point out about where we are right now. could we put the national graph back up for a second? look at where we have been. not just where we are right now, but where we have been. that first peak that we got in early april was terrible, right? went up to like 30,000 cases a day. just atrocious. thousands of americans died. we had 100,000 people dead by the end of may because of that peak in new cases that we saw it had early april. but look how we got to that peak. we got to that peak from here on the graph. look at the baseline we built up from in that case. when we got to the first pe

and as i mentioned, we also have an historic ice storm going on, kasie, from oklahoma city to wichita falls. it is snowing all the way down to el paso, and here's that ice forecast. power outages likely today in areas of western oklahoma and north texas. and if you've seen any of the pictures out of california, kasie, yesterday and today, winds up to 80 miles per hour. they had 60,000 people evacuate because of wildfires yesterday. that danger remains today also. >> bill, we have to stop meeting like this. this is really making me feel like this week ahead of election day -- we've got enough going on. >> too much going on, kasie! slow the world down! >> it's just -- exactly. i'm overwhelmed over here. anyway, bill karins, thank you, as always, my friend. here's hoping tomorrow looks a little better. >>> still ahead here, with the election just a week away, president trump is reportedly making plans to celebrate the night at, where else, one of his trump-owned properties. the renewed controversy over that is straight ahead. we're back in just a moment. er that is straight ahead we're b

>> as someone who covered this way back in the day 30 years ago, working in wichita, kansas. friday sales when they open the doors, it's nuts. it's like you're crazy and even though we're supposed to have social distancing, i don't think people -- if they get the opportunity to storm in and to get a particular large-screen tv or something else, they are going to still do it i know that they are saying we'll promote social distancing. we'll have the carts that are sanitize i hope it works, but, look, black friday is one of the days where a segment of the population goes wacko on that day, and that happens when the doors open. >> i used to enjoy it myself y'all get up early, maybe have a hot chocolate or something and go participate whether you need something or not robert frank, the whole point sen tiesing people to the store is buying at walmart amazon started t.walmart is doing the specials online first. what does that tell you? >> phil is robert. the whole notion of black friday is wacko the only thing worse than black friday is three black fridays. i mean the flat-screen h

wichita, 88. dallas, 91 but we got this system, the jet stream is going to dip down to the south. and look at how the temperatures change denver, near 80 today. tomorrow, it's going to be 55. kansas city, 24-degree drop. down to 59 chicago, dropping down to 55 degrees. and then that cooler air makes its way across the country by the weekend at buffalo on saturday, you're at 53 degrees. 62 on saturday in boston into the 60s in raleigh. myrtle beach and into knoxville. we'll get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. let's take a look at our red flag warning as we are going into the next couple of days. it has already started to ten through friday morning. this is where we will have some high wind gusts, low humidity as well as some hot temperatures. so any fires can spread very quickly. we do have to be aware of that as well as our temperatures that will reach into the 80s for the coastal areas and into the mid-90s for the interior valleys over the next couple of days. >>> and that's your latest weather. >> thank you

ian told the cbs station in wichita he heard one big breath and he knew something was wrong.ack of an ambulance and a short time after that, michelle was gone. ian remembers her like this, she was kindness. she was compassion, and she was empathy. she was my super power. and the last line of her obituary, until i can kiss you again, your husband ian. ian, it is you we're thinking about this afternoon and your marvelous michelle. we will be right back. r marvels oumichelle we will be right back. ok, just keep coloring there... and sweetie can you just be... gentle with the pens. okey. okey. i know. gentle..gentle new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database so you can start hiring right away. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. wewith some healthy halloween treats today. these are called veggie fruit chews. mine tasted like poopoo! mine tastes like broccoli, yuck! i want candy!